![GAC Welcomes Dr. Howard, Professor of Ethics and Reconciliation, on Campus]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1628616559/greateratlantachristianorg/yc2uc5xaldgrpxa7yw2g/AaronHoward.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1628616559/greateratlantachristianorg/yc2uc5xaldgrpxa7yw2g/AaronHoward.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1628616559/greateratlantachristianorg/yc2uc5xaldgrpxa7yw2g/AaronHoward.jpg","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_4/v1628616559/greateratlantachristianorg/yc2uc5xaldgrpxa7yw2g/AaronHoward.jpg","width":1200},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_5/v1628616559/greateratlantachristianorg/yc2uc5xaldgrpxa7yw2g/AaronHoward.jpg","width":1600},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_6/v1628616559/greateratlantachristianorg/yc2uc5xaldgrpxa7yw2g/AaronHoward.jpg","width":2200}])
"Let's teach children to celebrate their differences and to embrace the Imago Dei within each other. Let's free them from the burden of hate by showing them Christ's love." - Dr. Aaron Howard
Diversity & Inclusion News
![GAC Alumni Passes Georgia Anti-Hate Crimes Act]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1598276631/greateratlantachristianorg/ftkj7vxnmxhczy3gf1qn/hatecrimebill-2.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1598276631/greateratlantachristianorg/ftkj7vxnmxhczy3gf1qn/hatecrimebill-2.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1598276631/greateratlantachristianorg/ftkj7vxnmxhczy3gf1qn/hatecrimebill-2.jpg","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1598276631/greateratlantachristianorg/ftkj7vxnmxhczy3gf1qn/hatecrimebill-2.jpg","width":1024}])
GAC alumni Chuck Efstration (Class of 2001) authored and helped to pass Georgia’s new Anti-Hate Crimes Act, which received national attention this year and was recently signed into law. Georgia previously had been one of four states without a hate crime law.
![A Letter from Dr. Harsh]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1596653073/greateratlantachristianorg/enm8qo4rudxt6xpuqeh8/FamilyGraduation-32.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1596653073/greateratlantachristianorg/enm8qo4rudxt6xpuqeh8/FamilyGraduation-32.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1596653073/greateratlantachristianorg/enm8qo4rudxt6xpuqeh8/FamilyGraduation-32.jpg","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_4/v1596653073/greateratlantachristianorg/enm8qo4rudxt6xpuqeh8/FamilyGraduation-32.jpg","width":1200},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_5/v1596653073/greateratlantachristianorg/enm8qo4rudxt6xpuqeh8/FamilyGraduation-32.jpg","width":1600},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_6/v1596653073/greateratlantachristianorg/enm8qo4rudxt6xpuqeh8/FamilyGraduation-32.jpg","width":2200}])
Dear GAC Alumni,
I hope you and each of your family members are healthy and well. This is a busy time on the GAC campus as we prepare for the start of another school year. As we are planning for the opening of school in August, this summer’s preparations have required additional careful considerations to provide for the health and safety of our students in new ways.
![A Letter from Dr. Harsh]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1592852740/greateratlantachristianorg/gwua0msncjtfqjb83hrc/83071283_10158913502052526_7647828902827524096_o.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1592852740/greateratlantachristianorg/gwua0msncjtfqjb83hrc/83071283_10158913502052526_7647828902827524096_o.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1592852740/greateratlantachristianorg/gwua0msncjtfqjb83hrc/83071283_10158913502052526_7647828902827524096_o.jpg","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1592852740/greateratlantachristianorg/gwua0msncjtfqjb83hrc/83071283_10158913502052526_7647828902827524096_o.jpg","width":1099}])
Dear GAC Family,
I continue to be brokenhearted by all that has unfolded in recent weeks across our nation. I grieve with others for the families of victims like Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and George Floyd and those whose names we do not know who have suffered needlessly. I wish that racism, and the violence that rises from it, hadn’t caused their senseless suffering and deaths. I want to continue to move to a place where all members of our Black community feel safe and valued. Yet “wishing” things were different brings no progress. We’ve got real work to do. In America. In every institution. In the Church. In every school and college. And, yes, absolutely—in GAC.
![A Letter from Dr. Harsh]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1592921885/greateratlantachristianorg/axwlb3dzgmnopidgkbih/GAC-2019-11231.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1592921885/greateratlantachristianorg/axwlb3dzgmnopidgkbih/GAC-2019-11231.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1592921885/greateratlantachristianorg/axwlb3dzgmnopidgkbih/GAC-2019-11231.jpg","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_4/v1592921885/greateratlantachristianorg/axwlb3dzgmnopidgkbih/GAC-2019-11231.jpg","width":1200},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1592921885/greateratlantachristianorg/axwlb3dzgmnopidgkbih/GAC-2019-11231.jpg","width":1284}])
Dear GAC Family,
During the past two months, we have faced the hardship and challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic together. The disruption and loss have been real. Our GAC community experienced the loss of family members, economic hardship, interruption of daily life, and uncertainty about the future. But we stuck together, transitioned to online learning, stayed connected, and finished the year unified. Now, in the midst of this ongoing health crisis, we’ve been reminded of another crisis, one that has been going on for far too long. Like all of you, I have struggled to process the senseless, heartbreaking killing of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery. And so many other needless tragedies, less well known, but just as agonizing.
![GAC Student Leaders Use Music to Highlight Black History]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1582918502/greateratlantachristianorg/nvln0c7wqiyqmimpmxsp/4I9A9862_1.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1582918502/greateratlantachristianorg/nvln0c7wqiyqmimpmxsp/4I9A9862_1.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1582918502/greateratlantachristianorg/nvln0c7wqiyqmimpmxsp/4I9A9862_1.jpg","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_4/v1582918502/greateratlantachristianorg/nvln0c7wqiyqmimpmxsp/4I9A9862_1.jpg","width":1200},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1582918502/greateratlantachristianorg/nvln0c7wqiyqmimpmxsp/4I9A9862_1.jpg","width":1500}])
“Music embodies the words we can’t express. It comforts us during our deepest tragedies and fuels us during our greatest triumphs. More importantly, it unites us. Black History Month is not just for African Americans. The music you will hear today is woven into all of our lives” shared Simone Roberts, GAC’s Student Leader of Unity, who then proceeded to further describe the reason for the day’s special chapel assembly.
![International Student Program: The Wilsons and Jacky Zhang ‘18]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1592858632/greateratlantachristianorg/ymqkacd74jcnjjzdpwmi/Jacky2.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1592858632/greateratlantachristianorg/ymqkacd74jcnjjzdpwmi/Jacky2.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1592858632/greateratlantachristianorg/ymqkacd74jcnjjzdpwmi/Jacky2.jpg","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1592858632/greateratlantachristianorg/ymqkacd74jcnjjzdpwmi/Jacky2.jpg","width":960}])
Hosting an international student forms one family out of two.
While school nurse Kristen Wilson was palming warm foreheads and administering inhalers to Elementary students, back at home there were two Crock-Pots slowcooking dinner for her family. The newest addition, Zhang '18, was an active six-foot teenager who ate like one.
![I Have a Dream Chapel Brings it Home]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1574087968/greateratlantachristianorg/abcmqxa3bbvnch9udqpy/blackhistory.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1574087968/greateratlantachristianorg/abcmqxa3bbvnch9udqpy/blackhistory.png","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1574087968/greateratlantachristianorg/abcmqxa3bbvnch9udqpy/blackhistory.png","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1574087968/greateratlantachristianorg/abcmqxa3bbvnch9udqpy/blackhistory.png","width":960}])
Victoria Chyrack helped close out Black History Month in a big way. This senior felt motivated to organize GAC’s first ever I Have A Dream Chapel. From "Feeling Good" with the trombone back up, to a choral rendition of “It's a New Dawn, It's a New Day” to “September” by the GAC Band, the assembly was one of the most moving this year.
![High School Chapel Welcomes Year of the Pig]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1574087966/greateratlantachristianorg/i1bsycqnhdfz12ahx2jw/chinesenewyear.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1574087966/greateratlantachristianorg/i1bsycqnhdfz12ahx2jw/chinesenewyear.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1574087966/greateratlantachristianorg/i1bsycqnhdfz12ahx2jw/chinesenewyear.jpg","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1574087966/greateratlantachristianorg/i1bsycqnhdfz12ahx2jw/chinesenewyear.jpg","width":960}])
Last Tuesday, in the high school chapel, the first annual Chinese New Year Celebration began featuring performances of traditional Chinese dance and song from our own International Students.
![Won’t You Be My Neighbor: Meadowcreek and GAC maintain years-long service partnership]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1574087966/greateratlantachristianorg/nsau9ktrgkxqkrnzwm7f/wontyoubemyneighbor.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1574087966/greateratlantachristianorg/nsau9ktrgkxqkrnzwm7f/wontyoubemyneighbor.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1574087966/greateratlantachristianorg/nsau9ktrgkxqkrnzwm7f/wontyoubemyneighbor.jpg","width":800}])
Everyone could use a little inspiration. For the teachers and students at Meadowcreek Elementary School in Norcross, Georgia, sometimes that inspiration comes in the form of GAC Middle and High School students who take the bus across the street to serve in their classrooms. It’s neighbor helping neighbor, as both GAC and Meadowcreek students benefit from the partnership that has spanned many decades.